if you’re interested how it feels to get a massive tattoo on the back, then Keith’s Koi-blog is for you to read. Funnily enough i found this on boingboing and some days ago i talked to him on IAM :-)

and related to other news, nina is now officially in zurich. we spent a really nice day together, went for a long walk and had one of the feared nemesis-cakes in the restaurant ma marzilibrücke, where she also works.
but this perfect day with her does lead to me having a sunday evening blues, which is not too bad, because i still need to finish the lessons i hold tomorrow morning, so this keep my mind off blue thoughts.

if you guess right on what i’m working at the moment, then i pay you a beer next time i see you:

ps; and now i go to the cafe kairo

update: ah, well then! (this should be a link to habi.bild.li, but the upload did not work, i wrote chris about it…) explanation: it had much too much people there and i could just listen to michu slamming, then had a drink with renzo and came home.

do you remember that I’m on the search for a good panorama stitching software for the mac?
well, it seems like i’ve found the tools for the trade.
the well known panotools from helmut dersch are some excellent freeware-plugins for adobe photoshop. as i do not own a legal copy of this monster-piece of software i was on the lookout for more.
PTMac by Kekus is a front-end to those scripts, which helped me to make this image in something like 3 minutes (after emailing the author(s) of the software because i couldn’t get a panorama out (–> do not optimize on a partial panorama…):

nonetheless the software has a price-tag of 50$ so i’ll still need the 13 days left on my trial period to decide if it’s worth it. but it seem like, because you can generate panoramas of all flavors (spherical, cylindrical, etc.) and export it to all kinds of files (quicktimeVR, .jpg, some bizarre java-viewer formats and so on..)

and now i have to finish my lessons for tomorrow, so i plug my ethernet cable. good night

from next week on:

habi: Bern	nina: Bern Zürich

and i already feel lonely.

explanation: nina has to finish her studies (pharmaceutics) in either zürich, basel or geneva and she chose zürich for obvius reasons (the ETH in zürich is very renowned).
i stay here in bern for the moment. so we stop living 20 minutes apart, which makes me kinda sad.
i hope – from deep inside my heart – that this is only a test for our relationship and not a stumbling block! i know that i won’t be that big of a problem, there’s telephones, and normally she’ll come back to bern on the weekends and we’ll shurely manage to see each other during the week from time to time. but still the possibility to see each other spontaneous kinda does not work anymore…
nina, i love you!

well, amir shure loves my blog:

he posted 5 comments on all my last entries and wants to sell me some viagrainfo; well gfy amir! (listen to fword.wav on that site, it’s really funny!)

the good news: my bike is back!
after that it has spent a day somewhere, Mr. Wüthrich called at work this morning and told michel, that he found my bike in front of his shop.
so it seems, that somebody managed to open the lock on my bike, drive from my place to mr. wüthrichs coke machine and left it there.
what a twerp, stealing a bike for less than 5 minutes. but hey, i cannot complain, it’s back and in mint condition, nothing happened to my baby :-)

and the bad news (probably only interesting for these guys): Willy Aeschbacher did not renew his contract to run the cafeteria in the Gymer, where we all shared some remarkable moments.
So, from the beginning of next year, there’s no more Willy in the Mensa. How sad :-(

somebody stole my bike!
it left it over the night locked in front of my house and this afternoon i came home and it wasn’t there anymore. both of my flatmate haven’t seen it, so i presume someone stole it.
it’s a black FORT-frame, with a trailer-coupling on the left side of the back wheel, has two dents in the top-tube of the frame, and has a quite a big “Velokurier 333 05 05” sign attached to the frame.
if you see someone with that bike and it’s not me, punch him/her heavily in the guts and call me (+41 76 330 17 96)!
if you find it, then you get at least an invitation to the cinema or something like this, so keep your eyes open!

i want it back so deeply. i do not care if my insurance pays me a new bike, i just want that one back, there’s so many emotions attached to it!

ps: here are some pictures of the bike (1, 2, 3)

if you share an interest in tattos (if you’re a bit curious, then you might have found out, that I AM tattoed and got some piercings, too :-) then the skin-project looks really interesting, not only from the tatoo-point of view, but from a really artistic idea.
i’ve been thinking about getting a second tattoo since a long time (i’ve drawn a design pretty soon after i got my first one, in Sydney, one day before my 21st birthday, a bit more than 6 years ago.) and this might drown the desire to get that sund on the back for a moment….

btw: IAM is something like a close-gated-community for people who share an interest in body modification. Shannon (which is a really interesting person, from the stuff i read on his page) programmed the whole thing from scratch and hosts it, making it a place for me to hang out since years, actually my first entry on that blog dates from the 17th october 2000. (i guess three years ago, noone used the word blog, just think about that…). the closed-gated-community aspect made me post some really personal stuff from over the past years, where actually noone knew about that page, something like a diary which you keep for yourself. then Shannon opened IAM for the public, so now i do share some really personal stuff only for IAM-members, so not for the whole internet.
well, this entry got much longer than i thought, but i think it’s also time to get a bit more personal here, and not only post geeky stuff :-)

Sender: RTL
Show: Der Schwächste fliegt

Frage: Welcher römische Kriegsgott trägt den gleichen Namen wie ein bekannter Schokoriegel?

Antwort Kandidat: Snickers.

if you wanna read more of this, then check out Markus Gansels-Quizshow-page.

i just returned from a very cool alleycat in lausanne. normally an alleycat is about 30km “go as fast as you can”.
Blaize from velocite made that one different: there were 6 pickup places around the place de l’europe in lausanne (which were in a diameter of maybe 400m). at the start you got a list that was maybe 1-4-5-2, so you had not only to drive fast, but also think hard on how to go and pick up the “parcels” (which consisted of rubber stamps), then when you finished that list, you got another one, then another one, and so on until you finished seven lists.
and guess who finished first of all twelve messengers that were there and got that nice t-shirt that Blaize made himself?

me.

I just read that on apple.slashdot (I should prepare my physics-lessons for next week, but the pressure is not high enough at the moment): Dasher is availiable in beta for OSX.
Dasher looks like a really promising way to enter text on a device with limited abilities. This can intentionally be understood in both ways. Either the device has limited abilities (think about palm-sized devices or wearable computers) or the person entering text has limited abilities (think about a paralized person).
I just downloaded the Beta-version of Dasher for OS X (which is also availiable for Windows, GNU/Linux and Pocket PC) and played around with it a bit (see below)
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Dasher sports some pretty nifty interface. The user point to the letters he want’s to write an Dasher has some preemtive text input possibilites, so you are quite fast in writing (and also really fast in learning how to use it). The developers want to start to embed the possibility to add text to any application which should make dasher some decent fun to use!

If you can’t make out, what i’m rambling about, then you can read Dashers demonstration page with some huge movies of Dasher in action.

if you want to create a real-looking gossip magazine-title-page sporting your friends, then quickbrews dirt-generator has the tools for you :-)

guess who has a blog too?
george nutter double-u bush. check it out here.
i wonder if he makes the entries himself….

where the hell have we come, when cyborgs start to rule the world?

today i had to get a new ID, because mine got out of date after ten years.

quite funny to see me today and ten years ago :-)

the french ministry of culture has some really nice 404-error-pages!
(through Boing Boing)

this is a fast reaction!
today i got two mails in my inbox regarding the letter i wrote to the editor of the sonntagszeitung, first, one of the head of the ‘science’-part of the newspaper;

Sehr geehrter Herr Haberthür,
besten Dank für Ihren Leserbrief. Selbstverständlich hat uns die Geschichte im Wired inspiriert, dem Thema nachzugehen. Wir haben damit den freien Autoren Hubertus Breuer, der in New York lebt und regelmässig für die SonntagsZeitung schreibt, beauftragt, der Sache nachzugehen. Dass dabei eine ähnliche Geschichte rauskommen wird, wie sie schon in Wired stand, war uns von vornherein klar. Denn: Gute Ideen übernehmen ist schliesslich nicht verboten (im Gegensatz zum Abschreiben).
Ich kann Ihnen aber versichern, dass Hubertus Breuer alles selber so erlebt hat, wie er es beschrieben hat. H.B. ist einer von nur fünf Journalisten, die es bisher zu Apollo Diamond geschafft haben. Ich persönlich musste einen Eilbrief nach Boston schicken und der Firma Apollo Diamond versichern, das H.B. ein Autor der SZ und kein Spion von De Beers ist.
Zur Grafik: Hier haben wir mit der Quellenangabe klar deklariert, woher wir die Idee haben.
mit freundlichen Grüssen
— Nik Walter

then another one, of the author of the article, Hubertus Breuer:

Sehr geehrter Herr Haberthür,
besten Dank für Ihren Leserbrief. In der Tat haben wir die Idee zu
dieser Geschichte aus “Wired”. Doch ich habe das Thema zwei Wochen
lang ausführlichst recherchiert, war selbst in Boston und habe
mehrere Wissenschaftler zu dem Thema interviewt.
Ich war einer von bis dahin nur fünf Journalisten, die das Labor von
Apollo Diamond nahe Bostons besuchen durfte. Um das zu
bewerkstelligen, bedurfte es etlicher Überzeugungsarbeit. Dass Robert
Linares mich mit denselben Worten begrüßt wie den Autoren des
Wired-Artikel, zeigt, dass das wohl so seine Art ist.
Ich bin habe übrigens nicht dieselbe Prozedur durchgemacht wie der
Wired-Autor, dessen Augen nicht verbunden wurden. Mir dagegen wurde
dagegen eine Augenbinde aufgesetzt.
Weder das “International Gemological Institute”, ein Unternehmen, das
Diamanten zertifiziert, noch das Juweliergeschäft “Shenoa & Company”
kommen in dem Wired-Artikel vor.
Schließlich versteht es sich fast von selbst, dass es gewisse
Parallelen zu der Wired-Geschichte gibt, da sowohl der Wired-Autor
wie auch ich dasselbe Labor besuchten, um dasselbe Thema zu
recherchieren.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Hubertus Breuer

ok: HABi vs Sonntagszeitung, 0:1.

tomorrow it’s my duty to cook for ten hungry messengers, i have central-shift, and my flatmates have gone to bed already, so i cannot print them, because we have a “three flatmates to two printers ratio” and i’m the one without printer :-)
these are the recipes:

• recipe 1
• recipe 2